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Metallic Surfaces and Structures, Oil and Gas Corrosion, and Alternative Fuels Corrosion Inhibitors
Expert was taught in the field of Ferrous Metallic Corrosion as early as 1974 to become Director of Research & Development for the Laboratoires SECUR in Antwerp, Belgium in 1978. Expert worked on training and supervising the FEO 23 Surface…
IC Substrate Manufacturing, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Phenomenological Thermodynamic Modeling
Expert owned the copper plating process module at Intel's Assembly Test Technology Development site for ~2 years, focusing on plating deposition process, plating solution chemistry, plating equipment and thickness uniformity control as pertaining to IC substrate manufacturing. He interfaced with…
Petrochemical, Pulp & Paper, Distillation, Industrial Accident Investigation, Overpressure Investigation and OSHA Compliance
Expert has over 40 years' of engineering design in the Chemical Process and Pulp and Paper fields. He has held positions of Production Engineer, Technical Director, Quality Control Engineer, Process Engineering Department Head, Senior Engineer. His experience includes many years…
New Product Development, Lean, Six Sigma Blackbelt, Semiconductors/MEMS
Expert has had extensive process engineering experience with a variety of types of CVD reactors, including atmospheric, vacuum/thermal, and plasma enhanced. He has developed copper CVD precursors, developed low-stress/controlled stress dielectric films, and metal films. He wrote a book on…
Surface Engineering, Diamond like hard coating, material science, Medical device, hard disk
Most of Expert's scientific career has been devoted to the development of surface modification and thin film deposition technologies, including plasma nitriding, plasma carbonization, boriding, chromizing, cathodic arc, filtered cathodic arc, pulsed laser ablation, magnetron sputtering, pulsed mid-frequency dc magnetron…
Microbial Contamination Issues
Expert is an expert microbial investigator. He has 10 years of experience as a professional microbiology consultant in the commercial, residential and manufacturing sectors. His lab and team can perform diagnostics with microbial contaminates and manufacturing facilities. He served as…
Process Design & Optimisation, Scale-up Engineering, Detailed Engineering, Plant Trouble Shooting
Over the last 18 years of existence, Expert has carried out designs for chemical plants that start with preparation of conceptual flow diagrams, process flow diagrams, mass and energy balance diagrams, P & IDs, General Arrangement drawings for fabricated equipment,…
Welding of Steels and Other Alloys in Structural, Aerospace, Pharmaceutical & Refinery Applications
Expert has extensive experience with many arc welding processes, including gas-tungsten arc welding (GTAW), gas-metal arc welding (GMAW), shielded-metal arc welding (SMAW), and submerged-arc welding (SAW). He is familiar with both manual and automatic versions of these processes, as applied…
Metallurgical Engineering, Corrosion Engineering, Marine & Pipeline Corrosion, Cathodic Protection
Expert has performed research in aqueous corrosion, primarily in seawater. He has provided assistance in the design of equipment and facilities exposed to aqueous environments, including seawater, freshwater, potable water and wastewater. As seawater contains substantial amount of chloride, this…
Materials & Surface Science, Corrosion, Surface Treatments, Adhesive Bonding, Electrochemistry
Expert over 30 years of experience in basic and applied research and development involving surfaces and interfaces related to adhesion and corrosion. Particular areas of interest include surface treatments, especially those improving the durability or corrosion resistance of materials, and…